Indian democracy

 

It is election time in India. The Loksabha election is around the corner. I am excited for different reason. I am 38 years old and it is the first time I am going to vote.  Yes first time I am going to vote. I have had a reasons, I hate Indian politics and Indian politicians. I strongly believed I am not or my vote, is not going to determine who has to go to Loksabha. I know some of them are not truly qualified to occupy the chair. In some of the cases it is all criminals to occupy the chair.

 

In India, it is curious case. The majority in the loksabha is decided by the people, who don’t have proper education, don’t understand economics and don’t understand how a civil society has to function. This is majority of India. They always choose the wrong candidates and send him to Loksabha. The same people who voted them to power are always at the receiving end. You should not blame these poor people because they don’t have choices. The other candidates are also bad. It is choice between the devil and the deep blue sea.

 

The only time you can see the vibrancies of Indian democracy is at the time of election, at the time of State Assembly election and at the time of Central Loksabha election. The election will be held on time, the counting will be done as soon as possible. The list of winning candidates will be prepared and the party will get the invitation to form the Government over night. The new Government is sworn in with lightning speed. Stop!!. Stop there itself. After that every thing can wait. Every thing will move slowly. Every thing has to move through the ‘red tape’ and take it own time. Our Government machinery will grind slowly.

 

The state machineries move fast only at the time of declaring the election result and forming the Government. I want the Government machinery to function at the same speed in all other important issues. But so far in my life time I have seen the Government has failed miserably. May be some exceptions are there. Exception is not the rule of the game.

 

Sometimes, I even feel, we people have the ONLY right to vote. Beyond that we have limited rights. Indian democracy works differently for different people. Indian democracy is an “imperfect democracy”. I wish to call it as, democracy without “discipline’. A “disciplined dictatorship” is a better form of Governance than democracy without discipline. China is good example.

 

Even I can go to the extend and say, If any body say India is biggest democracy in the world it is the fraud of the 21^st century. Even we can still go down and criticise or come down heavily on any thing. But only on ‘GENERAL’ issues. The word ‘General’ is more important. The issue should not hurt any body – any groups sentiment, any religious sentiment, any state sentiment and list goes on. There are always people in India who do nothing but to criticise. Even some of my critixes say, ‘hay, you are saying also those things and still not get prosecuted because, it is sign of democracy, in India only you can do this not in any other country’. Even my critixe go to the extend and say, it is because of people like me, the country is lagging behind.

 

I know the unwritten rule of this country. I know I can write like this hundred times and get away with it scathe free. Only some, the so called patriotic people pass on some comment. Now imagine this case. This country has lot ‘goondas’, criminals of different size and shape at different levels are there. Law breakers are there in Police, corrupt officials are there in all levels at the Government offices, Politicians are there, there are lot of people with money power and muscle power are there. We are living in a civil society. Suppose a ‘common men’ have a problem with any of these people – police, lawyers, politicians, people with money power, people with muscle power and the ‘common men’ wants to settle the issue “fairly”, never ever think of in your favour, there you will find the true Indian democracy. As long as ‘common men’ don’t have to rub problems with this people, they have democracy beyond that it is a different story.  In India you can’t even take your local errant MLA to the Police station and get justice.  You can’t fight with your local corrupt Police men and get things right. Common men don’t have time and energy to take on people with money power and muscle power. Most of the time law and justice are for this ‘special people’. Indian democracy works differently for different people.